Barack Obama Social Justice 411 for Catholics

Have you noticed we're not hearing the silly slogans like 'yes we can' coming out of Obama's camp during this election season?

Statistics do not tell a pretty story about the impact of Barack Hussein's economic recovery ideas and social justice objectives for the poor.

For Catholics contemplating the plight of the poor, the facts about plans Obama has executed during his tenure in Washington have actually opressed the poor and benefitted the wealthy.

It's about the economy stupid.

Informing Catholics about magnitude of Obama's social injustices to the poor should be an important priority for the next few months.

While gathering information for this post, and others in the future, I was shocked by how bad things actually have become under the Obama administration. He is ran the country right into the ground.

Here are some rather alarming facts:

The poverty statistics are appalling. When Barack Obama took office, the official U.S. poverty rate stood at 14.3% and the number of the American poor stood at a record 43.6 million. In the most recent poverty figures available to us (for 2010), those numbers have actually risen - to 15.1% and to 46.2 million...

There are more than 46 million people (one American in seven) currently in receipt of food stamps, 15.5 million children living in poverty, and 21 million students receiving subsidized lunches (up from 18 million in 2006-7)...

When Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate in the U.S. economy was 7.6%, and very quickly thereafter became 10.2% (November 2009). It is now down to 8.1%...

over 5 million Americans have been out of work for over 27 weeks (the figure in 2007 was 1.2 million)...

Overall indeed, the unemployment situation is now so dire that as recently as November 2011, more than half of all unemployed Americans had exhausted their unemployment benefits - benefits that the Census Bureau estimates keep more than 3 million people from just slipping below the official poverty level for their size of family...

Why this persistence of unemployment? Mainly because job creation has slowed significantly in the contemporary U.S. economy...

And well they might, for the long-term job creating capacity of the contemporary U.S. economy is also slowing down...

a huge proportion of the jobs created since June 2009 (maybe 9 in every 10) have been purely temporary in nature...

The result is that even those currently employed face growing pressures linked to inadequate pay, lack of worker rights and rampant job insecurity...

Alongside falling housing values and slow job growth, the other great driver of continuing economic stagnation is this slow pace of income growth: a slow pace set in motion by the steady erosion of manufacturing wages and the disproportionate concentration of new jobs in sectors that traditionally pay poorly...

Instead of coinciding with rising middle class incomes, the first term of the Obama Administration has been marked by yet another period of growing income and wealth inequality. In contemporary America, as middle class families struggle to cover their bills and the ranks of the poor continue to swell, the gap between productivity and wages goes on rising, and the difference between pay at the top and pay at the bottom gets ever wider...

The numbers are again shaking. In 2010, the first year of the recovery from the great recession, a staggering 93% of the total income gain in the U.S. economy went to the top one percent of income earners;" and in 2011 (the second year of the recovery) "CEOs were paid, on average, 231 times more than workers ...

And, this article did not come from a bastion of Catholic orthodoxy. It comes to you from HuffPo.

Let's make informing Catholics that Obama is starving the poor, shall we?